technology, health care and industrials moving to the upside. we are seeing weakness, so in financials as well as telecoms today. i also want to point out the outperformance we're seeing in hardware stocks. all of this despite the weakness we have seen in apple recently. the new york, nyse computer hardware index outperforming since the beginning of december, having its strongest five-day run in four months, and since the beginning of the month, it is up just about 5.8%. who are the leaders in this group? take a look. we're seeing strength in seagate and hewlett-packard up today, of course, because there's been some chatter about a possible breakup. but these are the stocks moving higher. again, as i point out, despite some of the weakness we have seen in apple, this is a group that has been performing very well. retailers mixed to slightly weaker, of course in the wake of the same-store sales numbers that were disappointing. ahead of thursday, retail sales numbers for the month of november, take a look at some of the retailers. jcpenney is movi